Idolator
For the second time this week, a popular, raven-haired, outspoken female British singer has cancelled shows citing the almost-always-euphemistic "exhaustion." But perhaps to keep the rumor mill at a halt now that Amy Winehouse is now in (insert Nelson Muntz "ha ha") rehab, Lily Allen has posted a picture of her doctor's note, just so you know her symptoms are legit and not code for "coked out of my mind."
"I'm back in London eating my mums chicken soup cause im afraid the travelling has caught up with me," Allen writes on her blog. "I've got sinusitis and strep throat ( i don't even know what that is ) and have been advised to take a couple of weeks off by a doctor in LA and a doctor here." How does a woman in her twenties not know what strep throat is?
I'm Sick , Gigs Cancelled [Lily Allen's MySpace Blog]
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You would think her doctor would be able to spell her name right, right?
Aww, I remember seeing her at Coachella and she was stoned and forgot the lyrics to half her songs... and nobody cared, because we were all baked/drunk and she's so cute and foul-mouthed.
I heart her.
we dont use the term strep throat in the UK we just say tonsilitus
Maybe strep throat is called something different in the UK. Not being sarcastic, it's probably called something that sounds much nicer and more charming in a British accent.
@philippa318: Beat me to it!
As an American who had strep throat while on an extended visit to the UK, I can testify that the disease totally mystifies the NHS.
@labusgirl: Yeah, see, that whole forgetting-the-lyrics, performing-sloppily thing is what made me not enjoy her NYC gig a couple of months ago. I heart her album, but she's been pulling this sorry-I-suck act for too long now.
@dennisobell: It's different at Coachella, because we didn't go to see her, we went to see Rage. And she just happened to be playing.
If I paid to see her and she did that, I'd probably be really annoyed.
As always, it pays to be passive-aggressive. Amazon’s picks for the best books of the year so far. We’re in the middle of our countdown, we could see some progress there soon. Oh, Ms. Allen…that’s gross. (Go Fug Yrself) Wait–she’s claiming exhaustion.
Now I'm never going to be able to tell Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse apart.
@dennisobell: Really? Was this June at Roseland? Because I thought she was pretty decent, and I mean she remembered the words to her good songs (the only words I remember her forgetting are for "Littlest Things") so I was pretty happy with that performance. She's adorable, or at least that was the impression I came away with from the show.
Why does this girl still have a camera? Someone needs to take it away.
Meh, Islington. Posh.
She's like the Miranda July of music. Overly precious and overly sharing and somehow though you think you will hate her, it comes across as so endearing that you just want to date her and buy her chocolates forever and ever and be in stupid love with her.
@flackette: We consider it the kissing disease.
They also don't know what a yeast infection is (it has some lovely Victorian name like "thrush"), which was really a damn shame during a six-hour layover at Heathrow.
@Recury:
Hell, I won't be able to tell Lily Allen from crazy Liza Minelli.
@Breliant: Then what do you call mono?
What the hell is mono? I've always wanted to know! You Americans and your glamourous-sounding ailments.
Mono = Mononucleosis. [en.wikipedia.org]
That shit will take you down.
@kaate: Seriously. I got it when I was 15; fever up to 105, slept for two weeks straight, and lost 15 pounds.
god! she's boring and a crap singer. BORING!
Haha - the English language barrier. I remember when I noted the zucchini in my veggie dish when in England, and my roommates looked at me like I was 'special'.
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